I'll miss him. We had conversations on IRC about many things. I never met him in person though.
May he be remembered for the good and happy things he brought to this world.
Tracy
On October 11, 2017 8:17:57 AM EDT, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
I had the pleasure of meeting him when he came into Memphis to deal with one of his customers, Federal Express.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@flexipol.co.uk wrote:
Fellow Profoxers, I have just been told of some unfortunate news regarding our
colleague
Allen Pollard (known as Al by most people) who has unfortunately
departed
to the to the great database in the sky after a short protracted
illness.
Al was a great entrepreneur and specialised in generating systems for airports to handle all their movements (hence his company name gatwicksoftware) as well as being a good personal friend. He loved
VFP with
avengence and made it do things that other developers said was
impossible.
We first met many years ago in the UK at a local VFP developers
conference
in London and went on to meet regularly in Prague at the now defunct Devcons. IN recent years he had moved over to first Spain, then
France and
had painstakingly restored a set of gites which I unfortunately never
got
to visit despite making many plans to fly over there and land at his
local
airfield in Brittany.
After having had contact with fellow Profoxer Jean Laermans recently,
I
was made aware of Al's deteriorating condition - he had been
diagnosed with
an incurable brain tumour. I tried to contact him via the social
media we
had used in the past but to no avail and now find that he was too ill
to
participate. I fondly remember our Jam session nights playing guitars
when
he was in the UK and our drunken sessions in Prague as well as him constantly being mistaken for Eric Clapton.
He will be sorely missed on both the programming front as well as the personal one and I shall miss his banter very much.
RIP Allen
Dave Crozier
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